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[English Edition / Church History]

Did St. Mark "Blunder"?

Fr. John Whiteford

Is it correct that St. Mark "blundered" in the writing of his Gospel? There is no reason why we should conclude that he did, and you will never find any Father of the Church making any such suggestion. However, this is what Fr. Gregory Hallam stated recently in his E-Quip lecture series, in a lecture about St. Mark's Gospel.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Star of Bethlehem

Every year around Christmas, reports appear in the papers or on television which claim to give an astronomical explanation of the Star of Bethlehem: It was a comet, we’re told, or a supernova, or a reading in an astrological horoscope. These speculations miss the early Christian understanding of the Star that led the Magi.

[English Edition / Theology]

Book Launch of Fr. Peter Heers' "The Ecclesiological Renovation of Vatican II: An Orthodox Examination of Rome’s Ecumenical Theology Regarding Baptism and the Church"

"The book which we present today is very important and must be read both by theologians and the wider public. However, most especially it must be read by Bishops, and in particular those who are involved with theological and inter-Christian issues and with the theological and inter-Christian dialogues."—Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlassios

[English Edition / Theology]

The Fathers and Us

Metropolitan Saba (Esber)

For the fathers, the faith supposes that we do not "cherry-pick" their teachings. That is, we do not take teachings and sayings from here or there to prove an idea that we hold or to refute a position that we think is deviant. Rather, we deal with them with what the theologians of our Church call "the mind of the fathers" or "the patristic context."

[English Edition / Theology]

A Perspective on Marriage from the Canonical Tradition

Archpriest Alexander Rentel

Underneath everything we teach is the person of Jesus Christ, who gave his life and was willingly put to death on the Cross for the salvation of all. He has given us various means to attain this salvation, and one of them is Christian marriage in which a man and woman are joined, as from the beginning, as ordained by God, in order to work out their salvation.

[English Edition / Theology]

What is the Soul?

Fotis Skhinas

The whole of the ascetic/hesychastic training of Orthodoxy is aimed at the liberation of the intellect from reason, from the passions and our surroundings, and at its enlightenment and the restoration of the energy of the heart, which consists of the ceaseless remembrance of God, in the heart.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

An Elderly Joseph, the Virgin Mary and Sexuality

Fr. Athanasios C. Haros

Each year I find myself reminding people, and quite frankly becoming exasperated, about the truth of Joseph and Mary. As Orthodox Christians we teach that Joseph was a righteous old man in his seventies when he, by lot, was blessed to be the caretaker for the Panagia, the Theookos and Ever-Virgin Mary. Furthermore the Church AFFIRMS that since she was a virgin before conceiving Christ, while she was pregnant with Christ, and after Christ was born – why we call her Ever-Virgin – Joseph and Mary NEVER HAD SEXUAL RELATIONS.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Church, the Authentic Interpreter of the Scriptures

Kostas Nousis

It is obvious and well enough known, in any case, that the Church preceded the Scriptures, since it already existed, living in its own Tradition, when it established the canonical books, with all that involves. What, then, are the Scriptures? To put it simply, a written part of the total God-inspired Tradition of the Church.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Incarnation is the Fruit of God's Generosity

Fr. Georges Massouh

In the icon of the Nativity, we see a bull and a donkey surrounding the baby Jesus to warm Him. They symbolize the prophecy from the Old Testament, "The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib; but Israel does not know, My people do not consider” (Isaiah 3:1). Be generous, just as God is generous. That is the feast.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

The Veneration of the Theotokos According to the Bible

Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie)

We Orthodox Christians honor the Theotokos Mary more than all the saints and angels of heaven for she was found worthy to give birth to Christ, the Savior of the world by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit. The honor we render to the Mother of the Lord is exceptional, most honorable and most revered, for she is not only "a friend of His,” as are the other saints, but she is Most Holy (Panagia) above all the saints and all the angels.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Christian Monotheism of the Second Temple

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon

The apostolic word to the world contained a principled premise: the light of God was all one; the redeeming God was also the creating God. When the Christians assembled to pray, then, at the arrest of Peter and John, they first invoked God as Creator. Jesus was not just any sort of Messiah. He was anointed by Israel’s God, the Creator and Ruler of everyone and everything.

[English Edition / Theology]

On the Knowability of God in the Cappadocians and St. John Chrysostom

Jesse Dominick

But the uniqueness of the Orthodox Church is precisely that it alone among the Christian confessions refuses to reduce the perfection of Christ, and what it means to be perfect in Christ. The martyric spirit of the martyrs themselves and the monastics after them is not driven and sustained by a wise teacher, but rather by the God Who is Life and Who offers that Life to us through His salvific economy in His Church.

[English Edition / Theology]

Bob Dylan and Christian Zionism

In a 1984 interview, Dylan remarked, “I think politics is an instrument of the Devil. Just that clear. I think politics is what kills; it doesn’t bring anything alive.”

[English Edition / Theology]

Why you never question Allah: Islam’s trouble with blasphemy

Joel J. Miller

"The Christian’s trinitarian understanding of God allows for relational back-and-forth, whereas Islam’s monadic God cannot be questioned. Punnett quotes one scholar who says Muslims see the angry prayers of the Bible as proof of its 'inferiority' and 'corruption.' And so they jail hundreds for what David said as a matter of course and Christians repeat in their daily prayers."

[English Edition / Theology]

Apocalyptic Spirituality

Fr. Lawrence Farley

We know how it will really unfold—with the last trumpet, and the voice of the archangel, and the resurrection of the dead, and the final triumph of Jesus, and the new Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God like a bride adorned for her husband. We know what others don’t. We know the word “maranatha”.

[English Edition / Theology]

God and Man in Composite Creation

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon

The apostles, when they went forth to proclaim the Lordship of Jesus, consistently placed that message in a particular context: the cosmology of the Bible, based on the doctrine of Creation

[English Edition / Theology]

Euthanasia: Turning Your Back on the Opportunity for Glorification

With euthanasia, people aren’t making use of the right for a dignified death. Instead of making the most of this extremely trying time in the life of the patient as an opportunity for glorification, the ‘easy choice’ of a painless departure is taken. This is a eudaimonistic approach, by which people choose to depart in the same manner as they’ve lived.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Apophatic Quality of Speaking About God

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon

Orthodox Christology, far from reducing us to silence, demands a very high attention to how we say things.

[English Edition / Church History]

Authority in Ancient Israel

Fr. John Whiteford

What were the sources of doctrine for the Israelites in the Old Testament? Was it Tradition, or Scripture? Fr. John Whiteford talks about divine revelation and Tradition in the Old Testament.

[English Edition / Theology]

On Giving

Met. Georges Khodr

Christ our Lord, Christ our Shepherd, let us go to Him as He came to us. And in this He will be pleased and in this we will rejoice and be as He wanted us to be, enjoying joy, peace and grace.

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